More Pavilions At Folkfest

More Pavilions At Folkfest 14 Comments

The summer of sensitive security concerns has claimed its first victim: A two-day celebration of urban music scheduled to take place at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square the same weekend as the city’s Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival.
The annual TD Irie Music Festival of reggae and world music will continue at Nathan Phillips Square around the same time but its urban music program a few blocks north will be cancelled. The festival declined to comment Wednesday evening after releasing a statement that said moving the events at Yonge-Dundas Square to later in the year was “partly in response to the security concerns arising from the recent increase in violence in Toronto.”

h/t wallyj

Her Name Was Julia Gillard

Radioactive 28 Comments

A few years ago a ‘young and naive’ thirty five year old red headed female partner in a major law firm specialising in trade union business handled the settlement of a Fitzroy house purchase in the name of the union official with whom she was sharing reproductive fluids at the time.
The funds for the house purchase came from what appeared to be a union account (of which the union itself had no knowledge) but the law firm partner did not think to ask why the title was not to be registered in the union’s name..
The house has long since been on-sold but there is no evidence of any sale proceeds reverting to the union. It appears some half a million or more dollars were paid into the bogus union account by Theiss Construction in a legitimate transfer of state government grants for ‘training.’ Theiss thought it was paying the real union.

And she’s the current Prime Minister of Australia.
h/t Adrian

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Animal Rights Extremism 21 Comments

So why all the hostility from the Humane Society of the United States? Why did I hear from North and South Carolinians who had beaten back attempt after attempt from HSUS to have them taxed, registered, regulated, raided, and otherwise priced out of their hobby? What is it about these men, women, and children, so passionate about running up and down a concrete floor with their pets, that demands intervention from activists who think they know better?

It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing 15 Comments

In a nutshell;

Because most Western governments are insolvent, fiscal policy is dead. They maxed out their taxing power a long time ago and have been borrowing ever since. When it comes to the economy, governments are a spent force.
This has put central banks in charge, and they basically do one thing only: they print money. If all you have is hammer, everything looks like a nail, so central banks naturally think the world’s problem is a lack of money, which they are busily solving.
The problem is, a lack of money is not the problem, it’s solvency, and part of the reason for that is too much money, or rather, too much credit.

h/t Mike

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